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Efforts to control bank risk address the wrong problem in the wrong way. They presume that the financial crisis was caused by CEOs who failed to supervise risk-taking employees. The responses focus on executive pay, believing that executives will bring non-executives into line - using incentives...
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Using the National Compensation Survey between 2004-2017, we document three stylized facts and quantify cyclical heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. First, there is substantial dispersion in the incidence of performance pay, even within the same occupation; hourly...
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Efforts to control bank risk address the wrong problem in the wrong way. They presume that the financial crisis was caused by CEOs who failed to supervise risk-taking employees. The responses focus on executive pay, believing that executives will bring non-executives into line — using...
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Compensation schemes have been blamed for encouraging excess risk-taking on the part of managers within the financial system and real economy. In general, compensation cannot decrease below the base salary, while gains from bonuses can be limitless. The potential link between compensation and...
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We investigate the impact of workers' exposure to unemployment risk on CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting state …-level changes in unemployment benefits as a source of variation in workers' unemployment costs, we find that after unemployment …
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revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages … perspective, because the vast majority of estimates in the literature use wages to provide an estimate of the unemployment gap …. Therefore, an indicator which does not use wages at all to estimate the unemployment gap performs the best in forecasting wage …
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its strength and weakness, discuss its connections with theory, and draw out potential policy implications of its findings …
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